Visions of Higher Ground

This allegorical oil painting portrays a cozy interior scene leading the viewer's gaze to a vibrant outdoor landscape which is actually a painting within a painting. The interior room scene features a chair facing away from the viewer and a lamp with a vibrant red lampshade. The viewer of the painting and anyone sitting in the chair would be looking at a painting within a painting of a peaceful picturesque mountain hillside village with a white church and a barn that can be reached via a winding country road. . On the left side of the painting there are tall colorful buildings, palm trees and flooded streets, indicative of rising water in downtown historic Charleston. There is a roadway, red bridge and staircase leading out to what lies behind the painting which is higher in elevation. The artist painted this artwork after seeing it in a dream.